Max Berg

We extended the deadline of our machine learning competition by a few weeks until mid March! Still time to participate. We currently have 233 participants with 111 total submissions (some of them will be test submissions etc).

Aktualisiert: Juli 26

Do stimulants cause tolerance?

▪ Yes: For mood and rewarding qualities
▪ No: For treating #ADHD

From a limited database of 17 trials in new analysis:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41627718

#psychiatry #pmhnp #ADHDAwareness

Psychological translation differs from biomedicine, requiring frameworks tailored to psychological science!

This, and other insights from the first extensive review of #Translational #PsychotherapyResearch, can be found in Petrule et al. 👇👇👇

See also our bibliometric study: doi.org/10.1037/cps0...

Wir suchen für unsere Forschungsstation Psychose eine Leitende Psycholog:in, unbefristet und bis A14! 🎉 Voraussetzung: Approbation (VT) und Promotion. Wenn eines von beidem noch nicht komplett abgeschlossen ist, meldet euch bei Interesse trotzdem gern 🤗

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/5...

Plus: Schwere Fälle melden sich ggf. weniger und können sich auch weniger hartnäckig melden. Was uns zu: wie helfen wir hier effektiver? bringt

🧵 New WP with @kaimiele.bsky.social. We document 2 unsettling patterns in mental health care: 1) despite universal coverage, few individuals with mental illness receive guideline-consistent treatment, and 2) the more severe the illness, the lower the treatment uptake & the longer the wait times. 1/n

Und selbst sollte dies so sein: Wäre auch bitter. Als ich in der Klinik gearbeitet hatte hatten wir immer „how to get therapy“ in einer Gruppensitzung gemacht. Und da wurde sehr schnell deutlich wie frustig das oft ist…

Mehr Kassensitze führen kaum zu reduzierten Wartezeiten, schwer belastete Fälle kommen trotzdem deutlich schwerer an einen Therapieplatz. Es braucht daher andere Instrumente:

This probably also says something about concepts described in ordinary language in psychology 😀

Comic. [Two people one one side of a pile of seven apples, next to person with long hair next to five apples.] PERSON: Okay, with my seven apples added to your five, we have… let’s se… twelve apples! PERSON 2 [with hands raised]: Incredible! Perfect agreement with the theory! [caption] Experimental Mathematicians

Apples

xkcd.com/3180/

Russland schießt die Ukraine vor den Augen der Welt weiter in eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Und die Welt schaut weiter zu. Die Unterstützung reicht angesichts des russischen Energieterrors bei Minusgraden nicht aus. Das müssen die Partner anerkennen und daraus Handlungen ableiten.

🚨OUT NOW IN COGNITION AND EMOTION🚨:

Happy to share a new open access paper about an experimental Trigger Warning study led by Hannah Willems - a brilliant PhD student I have the privilege of supervising. 💫

Get your free copy here👇🏻:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#TriggerWarning #Trauma

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)!

This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026.

To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com

A brief thread 🧵

What does the path from basic psychological science to clinical treatment actually look like?

We mapped 50 years of research in our new paper in Clinical Psychology Review with @abitter.bsky.social , Viktoria Ritter, @rief01.bsky.social , & Anke Haberkamp.

📖 authors.elsevier.com/a/1mXJm%7E0r... 📖

This first comprehensive mapping of #translational psychological treatment reveals:
🔬 Extinction learning, emotion regulation, & inhibitory learning are most translated
🐢 Preference for simpler mechanisms (methodological) and terminological inconsistencies (conceptual) impede progress

🔎Participants sought: “Leben nach Gewalt” by @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social explores why🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏾👨‍👨‍👦🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽👨‍👦respond differently to traumatic violence. @goetheuni.bsky.social, @jlugiessen.bsky.social + @unimarburg.bsky.social combine psych, bio+socialdata to make therapy more effective➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/chiara...

Communicating Medical Numbers To the Editor Dr Zikmund-Fisher and colleagues1 highlight several important caveats regarding the presentation of numbers in medical communication and provide thoughtful suggestions for clinicians on ...

🎉 Happy to share a Letter with @rief01.bsky.social in @jama.com: We argue that clinicians should be aware of framing effects when communicating likelihoods. Eg, patients perceive "1 in 10 have side effects" as more concerning than "9 in 10 do not have side effects". jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In der Ukraine gibt es in weiten Teilen keine Energieversorgung und die Menschen kompensieren mit ihrer Energie. Weil sie für ihre Freiheit kämpfen müssen. Meanwhile stimmen im Westen immer mehr Menschen in geheizten Wohnungen gegen ihre eigene Freiheit.

Really disappointed that @natmed.nature.com is amplifying propaganda that sets out to justify the destruction of biomedical research in the US and around the world. Just because people are in power does not mean journals should launder their credibility.

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.

In many jurisdictions, people's lives have been ruined because they "pirated" a music album. Meanwhile, NVIDIA:

Jan 13 is🌎Day to Combat Depression. The LOEWE Center @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social unites psychology, psychiatry+computer science to view mental illness as dynamic networks, opening🆕paths for research+personalized care.➡️https://www.dynamic-center.net/ @rief01.bsky.social
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🌟📝 Just out in World Psychiatry:

Our new piece demonstrates the added value of dynamic symptom networks for predicting treatment outcomes beyond baseline severity & common covariates, with an added explained variance of 9-22% at post-treatment & follow-up.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Europe is deploying a tripwire in case of U.S. attack. Crazy times.

Also according to my clinical experience (tm). But in many cases highly comorbid with other mental health problems...

People with more severe depression probably benefit more from psychotherapy than those with mild depression. Read our new meta-analysis of almost 400 randomized trials of therapies for depression. With Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel, Eirini Karyotaki, Davide Papola

doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Cord Benecke (1965-2025).

Vor allem weil EMDR ja eine evidenzbasierte Option wäre (also nicht die angegebenen Wirkmechanismen aber die Expo). Und wenn es mit den Augenbewegungen nicht geht gibt es ja andere Verfahren… Tut mir auch sehr leid.

The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...